Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/02

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Subject: Re: recoated Summarit
From: "Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:13:00 -0700

On  2 Jul 97,  Patrick Sobalvarro wrote:

> P.S. A note about lens hoods: the day I bought the lens, I bought
> a
>      non-Leica frustum-shaped hood that fit it.  I worried that
>      this quite narrow hood would cause vignetting, and so I later
>      bought a Leica hood when I finally found one at a
>      "reasonable" price, but now I see that either hood works
>      fine, with no noticeable difference.  So don't be worried
>      about vignetting with those little non-Leica frustum-shaped
>      hoods that say "fuer Summarit" on them.

I think you may mean, by frustum, Pat, a cut off pyramid, therefore 
a square cornered hood, though I know the word frustum as meaning 
a cut off pyramid OR cone. To me, it could mean either a conical or 
squarish hood. C'mon, Godfrey, my mathematician friend, what is a 
frustum usually?
- --
Roger Beamon  
       Naturalist & Photographer
       Leica Historical Society Of America
       mailto:beamon@primenet.com
          
          Thought for the day:
      Book (n): a utensil used to pass time while waiting
      for the TV repairman.